When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Bryan Burrough's new book is The Gunfighters: How Texas ...

Bob Charnes can’t remember the first time he aimed a six-shooter at a fellow human being and pulled the trigger, enjoying the rich scent of smoking gunpowder as his victim crumpled to the ground. Nor ...

An incredible historical overview! Be transported into the wild and wooly past of the American Wild West! In this fascination 6 documentary collection, you'll find history, lore and biographies of the ...

Who was the deadliest gunfighter of the Old West? Legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Jesse James all have larger-than-life reputations, but the truth is often a lot messier. Join me as ...

As much as the “Gunfighter Era” of the Old West was characterized by shoot-outs in the streets, so too was it known for tall tales and quick quips. Consider the case of Pink Higgins. Higgins stumbled ...

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Bryan Burrough, the author of The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, recalls a time when expressing one's preferred portrayal of Doc Holliday was character-defining barroom banter. "In my era ...

The 2019 World's Fastest Professional Gunfighters World Championship competition is underway at the Big Texan Steak Ranch & Microbrewery. The qualifying match was held Friday and the competition ...

The Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum will put a comedic tilt on the Old West in "Rendezvous of Gunfighters," a series of six performances beginning 10:30 a.m. Saturday. "Each group does a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sonnichsen was a Harvard-trained historian teaching in El Paso who almost single-handedly recovered the stories of the great feuds ...